US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that waived sweeping US sanctions and tariffs targeting Russia's energy revenues after signing them into law last month.

Meetings to agree a structure for public sector pay talks are expected to get under way this weekend.

In the week when Volodymyr Zelensky had the worst falling out with Donald Trump since the notorious Oval Office ambush 18 months ago, Ukraine's president is also facing a grave financing problem for next year.

The Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) has criticised the Minister for Health, for what it claims is a failure to engage on issues for the past 20 months.

A man is due in court later today charged in connection with the murder of Mark Cullen in Dún Laoghaire in Dublin last summer.